Eiatosiema.'] UvticaceCE. I 1 I 



Herbaceous or suffruticose, glabrous, pubescent or tomen- 

 tose ; stem simple or branched, branches often widely 

 spreading; 1. subsessile, i-6 in., obHquely or falcately oval, 

 oblong-lanceolate, or linear-oblong, acuminate, or broadly 

 caudate, entire or coarsely crenate, toothed or serrate above 

 the middle, base acute or cuneate, lateral veins very few; 

 cystoliths crowded and conspicuous: stip. linear-lanceolate; 

 fl. dicecious, recepts. of both sexes sessile, capitate, males 

 pisiform, fem. smaller; bracts rounded, pubescent ; bracteoles 

 of male recept. oblong with pubescent costa and tips, of fem. 

 spathulate, ciliate; male sep. rounded, obtuse, pubescent; 

 fem. sep. minute, denticulate; achene ellipsoid, acute. 



Van /3, lineare, Wedd. Monogr. Urt. 313. C. P. 3426. 

 Very slender, 1. 2-4 in., linear, obtuse, quite entire or with 

 1-2 large teeth, veins very obscure. 



Var. 7, bidentatum, Hk.f. I. c. C. P. 456. 



Slender, much branched, 1. \-\\ in., lower half cuneately 

 obovate, upper as long, ligulate, obtuse, with two large teeth 

 or 3-4 rounded ones about the middle, branches often bearing 

 much smaller accessory 1. 



Var. t^, falcig-erum, Wedd. I. c. C. P. 3427. 

 Very slender and much branched, 1. 2-5 in., narrow, 

 falcately linear-lanceolate, entire, or with 1-2 large marginal 

 teeth. 



Var. 6, petiolare, Thw. ex Trim. i?i Journ. Bot. xxiii. 243. C. P. 

 3920. 



L. 5 in., linear-lanceolate, narrowed into a petiole \-\ in. 

 long, with 3-5 large teeth on each margin, and a caudate tip 

 I in. long, cystoliths copious beneath, visible above only on the 

 margin and along the midrib. 



Damp forests up to 5000 ft.; common, especially in lower montane 

 zone. Fl. March-May ; green. 



Himalaya Mt. and South to Travancore. 



Exceedmgly variable in habit and foliage ; none of our forms are 

 precisely like Wight's figure, but C. P. 2183, called var. major by Weddell, 

 is nearest. Thwaites considered var. bidoitata as the type of the species. 



Var. e ought probably to be reckoned a separate species, but I have 

 too little material, and the only locality is ' Central Province.' 



4. IS. surculosuzn, WioJu, Ic. vi. 35 (1853). 



Wedd. Monogr. Urt. 329. Thw. Enum. 260. E. diversi/oliuin, Wedd. 

 in DC. 1. c. 189. C. P. 2181. 



Fl. B. Ind. v. 572. Wight Ic. t. 2091, f 4. 



Stems 3-12 in., tufted, erect from a rooting, stoloniferous 

 base, or prostrate, stout and fleshy or slender, glabrous or 



